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Values of Happiness
Iza Kavedzija
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Description for Values of Happiness
Paperback. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 24. Weight in Grams: 502.
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances. The contributors explore ... Read more
How people conceive of happiness reveals much about who they are and the values they hold dear. Drawing on ethnographic insights from diverse field sites around the world, this book offers a unique window onto the ways in which people grapple with fundamental questions about how to live and what it means to be human. Developing a distinctly anthropological approach concerned less with gauging how happy people are than with how happiness figures as an idea, mood, and motive in everyday life, the book explores how people strive to live well within challenging or even hostile circumstances. The contributors explore ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
HAU United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
IL, United States
ISBN
9780986132575
SKU
V9780986132575
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About Iza Kavedzija
Iza Kavedzija is a lecturer at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Meaning in Life. Harry Walker is assistant professor in the department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of Under a Watchful Eye.
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